The original use of AC_ARG_WITH is buggy and causes expat support to be *disabled* if "--with-expat" is passed to configure. Upstream status: pending Index: log4c-1.2.4/configure.in =================================================================== --- log4c-1.2.4.orig/configure.in +++ log4c-1.2.4/configure.in @@ -217,9 +217,9 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(expat, have any effect and Log4C uses some bundled yacc/lex code for parsing it's configuration file. ]), - with_expat=no, + [], with_expat=yes) -if test x$with_expat = xyes ; then +if test x$with_expat != xno ; then use_expat=yes AM_PATH_EXPAT(1.95.1) fi